New Ship (Chaos Resurgent)

Resurgent Class Grand Cruiser (220 points)

The Resurgent class is an ambitious project designed to restore the formerly prestigious chaos flagships. In practice, no shipyard under chaos control is capable of building a brand new battleship, but a few are capable of assembling something resembling the old Grand Cruiser type of ship, supplementing the dozen or so Repulsive classes still in chaos service. None of the new Grand Cruiser patterns are capable of fully matching the technological marvel of the old Repulsive class, but are still deadly combatants and are popular as flagships for the new generation of warmasters.

The Resurgent class generally resembles the Repulsive, but sacrifices the range of the old model’s weaponry so that its weaker, scratch-built engines may still retain a useful combat speed, and it can still afford to power the iconic dorsal lances. The side-mounted weapons lack the reach of the elder patterns but are more potent in a close-range brawl.

In some ways it is a down-grade from the Repulsive, but can be built anew, and created a nasty surprise for Port Noxa, who had been expecting an attack from Murder or Carnage class ships and instead received a pair of never-seen-before grand cruisers. Their surprise was short-lived…

 

Type/Hits	Speed		Turns	Shields	Armour		Turrets
Cruiser/10	20cm		45*	2	5+		3
Armament		Range/Speed		Firepower/Str.		Fire Arc
Port weapons b.		30cm		18		Left
Starb. weapons b.		30cm		18		Right
Dorsal lance b.		30cm		3		Left/front/right
Prow torpedoes		30cm		6		Front

Famous Ships
Dark Hope, Denunciation, Purge

Notes

The Dark Hope is equipped with advanced communication and control equipment salvaged from a ruined battleship, increasing its Leadership rating by 1. This upgrade costs +25 points.

The Denunciation may exchange its weapon batteries to the heresy pattern of Firepower 14, 45cm range, at the cost of reducing its speed from 20cm to 15cm. This exchange does not affect points.

The Resurgent class can be modelled by using a Repulsive class model, possibly shortening the barrels of its weapon batteries.